Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Why are these stylish women posing with scientific instruments? Instrument makers in the 1960s used “lovely ladies” to sell their wares, an advertising ploy that’s still around today.
Join Distillations podcast host Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
On today’s episode of Distillations we investigate the science of sweet sound.
Today Distillations is finding out more about professional networks—particularly in the field of chemistry.
Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov led an ideologically perilous campaign to rid the world of famine.
The Disappearing Spoon has the story behind notorious surgeon Walter Freeman’s contempt for his father, failures with his sons, and obsession with lobotomies.
Can an upcoming White House conference muster the political will needed to address the nation’s food insecurity and obesity crises? A summit from 1969 offers clues.
